Ukraine war live updates: Boris Johnson says Putin threatened him with missile strike in pre-call; Berlin rules out fighter jets for Kyiv - CNBC

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal said Kyiv wants to articulation the European Union wrong 2 years, mounting a precise ambitious timetable for joining the bloc.

Speaking to Politico, Shmyhal said "we person a precise ambitious program to articulation the European Union wrong the adjacent 2 years ... So we expect that this year, successful 2023, we tin already person this pre-entry signifier of negotiations," helium said.

Ukraine has made nary concealed of its privation to articulation the EU and has already applied to articulation the bloc. It is not the lone campaigner country. Others, specified arsenic North Macedonia and Montenegro person waited implicit 10 years for immoderate advancement successful their ain respective rank applications. French President Emmanuel Macron has said EU rank for Ukraine is apt to beryllium a process that volition instrumentality "decades."

EU commissioners are heading to Kyiv connected Friday to conscionable Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Politco noted that their task volition apt beryllium "managing expectations" regarding specified a choky timetable for introduction into the EU.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russia told the United States connected Monday that the past remaining pillar of bilateral atomic arms power could expire successful 2026 without a replacement owed to what it said were U.S. efforts to inflict "strategic defeat" connected Moscow successful Ukraine.

Both Russia and the United States inactive person immense arsenals of atomic weapons which are presently partially constricted by the 2011 New START Treaty, which successful 2021 was extended until 2026.

What comes aft Feb. 4, 2026, however, is unclear, though Washington has indicated it wants to scope a follow-on statement with Russia.

Asked if Moscow could envisage determination being nary atomic arms power pact aft 2026, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told the RIA authorities caller agency: "This is rather a imaginable scenario."

Ryabkov, Russia's apical arms power diplomat, said the United States had successful caller years ignored Russia's interests and dismantled astir of the architecture of arms control.

"New START whitethorn good autumn unfortunate to this," Ryabkov told RIA. "We are acceptable for specified a scenario."

His remarks represent a informing to Washington that its continued subject enactment for Ukraine could scupper the last large post-Cold War bilateral arms power pact with Russia.

The United States has supplied much than $27 cardinal successful information assistance to Ukraine since Russia invaded the state connected Feb. 24, including implicit 1,600 Stinger anti-aircraft rocket systems, 8,500 Javelin anti-tank rocket systems and implicit 1 cardinal 155mm artillery rounds.

"The full concern successful the sphere of security, including arms control, has been held hostage by the U.S. enactment of inflicting strategical decision connected Russia," Ryabkov said.

"We volition defy this successful the strongest imaginable mode utilizing each the methods and means astatine our disposal."

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Former British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed to endanger him with a rocket onslaught successful what helium described arsenic an "extraordinary" telephone telephone earlier Russia's penetration of Ukraine.

In an excerpt of a BBC documentary called "Putin vs the West," Johnson says helium spoke to Putin successful February 2022, soon earlier Russia's penetration of Ukraine. During that call, helium said helium told Putin that warfare would beryllium an "utter catastrophe" and would entail sanctions connected Moscow and apt much NATO troops connected Russia's borders.

Johnson said that aft making those points during the call, successful which helium said Putin had been "very familiar," Putin appeared to endanger him.

"He threatened maine astatine 1 point, and helium said, 'Boris, I don't privation to wounded you but, with a missile, it would lone instrumentality a minute' oregon thing similar that," Johnson said successful the documentary, the BBC reported.

"But I deliberation from the precise relaxed code that helium was taking, the benignant of aerial of detachment that helium seemed to have, helium was conscionable playing on with my attempts to get him to negotiate."

It's intolerable to ascertain whether Putin was superior successful his remark but relations betwixt the U.K. and Russia were already strained earlier the war, peculiarly aft a Russian nervus cause onslaught carried retired successful the U.K. successful 2018. The U.K.'s staunch enactment of Kyiv has heightened tensions.

— Holly Ellyatt

Russian authorities are apt keeping unfastened the enactment of different circular of call-ups nether its "partial mobilisation" program, according to Britain's Ministry of Defense.

In an quality update connected Twitter, the ministry cited media reports past week suggesting Russian borderline guards were preventing dual passport-holding Kyrgyz migrant workers from leaving Russia, telling the men that their names were connected mobilization lists.

Separately, connected Jan. 23, the ministry noted that Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said that the decree connected the partial mobilization, announced by Russian President Vladimir Putin past September, "continues to stay successful force, claiming the decree remained indispensable for supporting the enactment of the Armed Forces."

"Observers had questioned wherefore the measurement had not been formally rescinded," the British ministry stated, adding that "the Russian enactment highly apt continues to hunt for ways to conscionable the precocious fig of unit required to assets immoderate aboriginal large violative successful Ukraine, portion minimising home dissent."

There has been mounting speculation that Putin could denote different mobilization wave, fixed the Russian defence ministry's caller announcement that it plans to beef up its combat unit to 1.5 cardinal people, from a existent reported level of astir 1.1 million.

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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskyy pressed allies for faster weapons supplies arsenic warring successful eastbound Ukraine, peculiarly successful the Donetsk region, continues to beryllium intense.

"The concern is precise tough. Bakhmut, Vuhledar and different areas successful the Donetsk portion are nether changeless Russian attacks. There are changeless attempts to interruption done our defense," Zelenskyy said successful his nightly video code Sunday.

"We are doing everything to guarantee that our unit outweighs the occupiers' battle capabilities. And it is precise important to support the dynamics of defence enactment from our partners," helium said, adding that "the velocity of proviso has been and volition beryllium 1 of the cardinal factors successful this war."

"Russia hopes to resistance retired the war, to exhaust our forces. So we person to marque clip our weapon. We indispensable velocity up the events, velocity up the proviso and opening of caller indispensable weaponry options for Ukraine," helium said.

Ukraine's allies Germany and the U.S. agreed past week to nonstop Kyiv dozens of tanks, with different allies successful Europe pledging to nonstop their ain German-made tanks arsenic well, and the U.K. sending British tanks to Ukraine. Ukraine's ambassador to France, Vadym Omelchenko, said connected Friday that 321 Western tanks are acceptable to beryllium delivered to Ukraine.

— Holly Ellyatt

Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisted astatine the play that combatant jets would not beryllium provided to Ukraine, telling a German paper that determination should not beryllium a "bidding war" implicit weaponry and that Germany "will not let a warfare betwixt Russia and NATO."

Scholz reiterated Germany's objections to sending combatant jets to Ukraine, telling the Tagesspiegel paper Sunday that determination is nary question of doing so.

"The question of combat craft does not originate astatine all," Scholz said, according to Politico's translation of the archetypal story.

"I tin lone counsel against entering into a changeless contention to outbid each different erstwhile it comes to weapons systems," helium added.

Germany past week agreed to nonstop 14 Leopard 2 tanks to Ukraine aft months of resisting unit to bash so. Berlin besides said it would let different allies to nonstop their ain German-made tanks to Kyiv. The U.S. besides agreed to nonstop a fig of M1 Abrams tanks.

Ukraine expressed gratitude for the determination to nonstop tanks but instantly said it needed much firepower to antagonistic Russia's invasion, asking for combatant jets from its allies. One defence ministry advisor told CNBC helium was definite Kyiv would person F-16 combatant jets from its allies and that determination should beryllium nary hold implicit the decision, arsenic determination was implicit tanks.

Over the weekend, different Ukrainian authoritative said negotiations implicit the imaginable sending of onslaught craft to Ukraine were "ongoing."

"Our partners recognize however the warfare develops. They recognize that onslaught craft are perfectly indispensable to screen the manpower and armoured vehicles that they springiness us," advisor to the caput of the Office of the President Mykhailo Podolyak told the Freedom TV transmission Saturday.

"In the aforesaid way, successful bid to drastically trim the cardinal instrumentality of the Russian service - artillery, we request missiles. That's wherefore negotiations are already underway, negotiations are accelerating," Podolyak said successful comments translated by NBC News.

— Holly Ellyatt

Ukrainian vessel crews arrived successful the U.K. implicit the play to statesman grooming connected Challenger 2 tanks that Britain has provided to the country.

The U.K. said it would supply 14 tanks earlier successful January, up of the U.S. and Germany announcing past week that they excessively would supply tanks.

Tank crews volition beryllium trained to some run and support the tanks, which volition beryllium delivered to Ukraine by March.

— Holly Ellyatt